By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chicken Music of the Day
Mexican Whip-poor-will, Tucson; Mt. Lemmon; Normal Hitchcock Campground, Arizona, United States. “Two-hundred and one examples of the “Whip-poor-will” Name of BNA or, extra appropriately, the track of C. v. arizonae (based mostly on vary). High quality unchanged (1 – this seems to be the BEST instance we’ve of track for this subspecies).” One other extremely lengthy whip-poor-will the place the old-school birder (1991) counted the calls!
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
Democrat framing, arising:
BREAKING NEWS: Jim Jordan has been disqualified from operating for Congress in 2024 attributable to a violation of Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification.
This Constitutional provision states that no one that beforehand took an oath as a U.S. officer and engaged in riot or… pic.twitter.com/xDDZpW0dZM
— Tamie Wilson for US Congress (OH-4) (@TamieUSCongress) August 28, 2023
No, Jordan hasn’t been disqualified. It is a fundraising pitch. Anticipate extra if it really works out.
“The Fourteenth Modification Fantasy” [David Frum, The Atlantic]. “[Eminent jurists] argue that language within the Fourteenth Modification, adopted after the Civil Conflict, ought to debar the coup-plotting ex-president from showing on a poll for any workplace ever once more. Their studying is undisputed. Their conclusions are one other story. The mission to disqualify Trump from operating for president is misguided and harmful. It received’t work. If it one way or the other may work, it could create issues worse even than Individuals already face. In a perfect world, Trump’s fellow Republicans would deal with this matter by repudiating his crimes and rejecting his candidacy for his or her presidential nomination. Failing that—and it definitely appears as if that hope is failing—opponents of Trump should dig deep and beat him on the polls another time. There is no such thing as a cheat code to win this recreation.” • I hate to search out myself in settlement with Frum, however wants should. No matter what the textual content of the Structure states, giving election officers of one celebration to energy to take away candidates from the different celebration from the poll line based mostly on a judgement name is a change to the Constitutional order (albeit an unwritten portion of that order). The “eminent jurists” have pointed to the Rubicon and mentioned, “Yep! Let’s cross it. What may go improper?”
“The Constitutional Case for Barring Trump from the Presidency” (interview) [J. Michael Luttig, The New Yorker]. Luttig explains the “self-executing” side of the Fourteenth Modification, giving the instance of the age requirement. The Structure requires {that a} President be 35 years outdated. Due to this fact, election officals should stirke their title from the poll. However: “right here is vastly extra judgment entailed in figuring out whether or not, as an example, the previous President engaged in an riot or rise up than in figuring out whether or not a candidate was thirty-five years outdated. That doesn’t relieve the obligated election official from making that willpower. The method for putting people on the poll varies from state to state. However, underneath our studying of the Fourteenth Modification, a person election official may make that call himself or herself. As a sensible matter, is that more likely to happen? It could rely, I feel, on the workplace of the election official. If it have been the secretary of state who was charged with putting people on the poll, then I consider that call by the duly appointed state official would suffice. However, in all occasions, whoever makes the qualification or the disqualification choice and whether or not they make it, that call might be instantly challenged, in all probability by the previous President himself. And that problem would go straight into court docket—both state or federal—and it could finally make its approach to the Supreme Court docket of the US.” • Nonetheless, the purpose of entry is a disqualification by an election official on the state stage. Fits by people are frivolous.
The beginning of a lovely friendship:
This excellent explication by @judgeluttig is my understanding as nicely. It’s necessary to bear in mind as litigation round Part 3 disqualification of Donald Trump and others will get underway within the coming days and weeks. Watch this house. https://t.co/kkNbCbiQ7F
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) August 31, 2023
* * * “The Sweep and Pressure of Part Three” [William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Pennsylvania Law Review]. I extremely suggest this piece (and the following dialogue at NC, starting here). As a former English main and a fan of shut studying, I’m not averse to “originalism,” of which Baude and Paulsen present a magisterial instance, within the sense that understanding the regulation as a textual content should start with understanding the plain, public that means of the phrases used when the textual content was written. That’s how I learn Shakespeare, or Joyce, so why not the Structure? Simply so long as understanding doesn’t finish there! In any case, I’m working by it. One factor I discover is that there do appear to have been reasonably loads of rebellions and insurrections, not simply the Civil Conflict. To me, that is parallel to at least one lesson I drew from Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (episode 1): There are reasonably loads of revolutions, too. Alert reader Pensions Guy summarizes Baude and Paulsen as follows:]
The authors undergo an exhaustive textual and originalism evaluation of Part Three, and their Federalist Society leanings don’t deter them from reaching their conclusion that officers in each State who’re charged with figuring out candidate {qualifications} ought to conclude that Donald Trump is disqualified from being on ballots due to the oath he took on Inauguration Day 2017 and subsequently violated by his position within the riot that happened on January 6, 2021.
Taking “riot” as learn (I have to do more reading), extra on my persevering with protection of Part Three.
Capitol Seizure
“Proud Boys who led march to Capitol get two of the lengthiest sentences since Jan. 6 assault” [Politico]. A “march”? Not an riot? Or a coup? The entire article is sloppy like this, and doesn’t even give the statute underneath which they have been convicted. Nonetheless, this caught my eye: “‘It’s nearly seductive in how tangible a future act like this may very well be,’ the prosecutor added. ‘” • That is attention-grabbing, as a result of isn’t the true challenge “We’re going to make use of pressure to attain our political ends”? (Be aware using “pressure” versus “violence.” Is a picket line “pressure”? How about loud chanting right into a megaphone? And so forth.) If that’s the case, then, why the extra verbiage of “It simply takes slick propaganda and an atmosphere the place you encourage folks to mainly say, ‘It’s us towards them’”? Are we then to outlaw “divisiveness”? Mandate “unity”? Will we are saying that if the propaganda is “slick” sufficient, the enchantment to “pressure” doesn’t should be express? Little question we will ask the Censorship Industrial Complicated to reply these questions. See underneath “Spook Nation.”
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * “The ultimate battle”:
Rattling that is good
Trump posts new marketing campaign video on Reality
“”That is the ultimate battle…We are going to demolish the Deep State…and rid America of those villains as soon as and for all””
YES
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 3, 2023
I missed this in early August. Attention-grabbing that Trump plans to forged out the fascists, communists, and Marxists. What’s he, a centrist? Then once more, he’s additionally going to forged out the warmongers and the deep state. He’s gonna be a busy man! (That is additionally attention-grabbing in that it reveals a technique Trump could make use of footage from his trials; the implicit message is “That is why I’m right here” (and, for some fraction of the voters, “I’m right here for you.” It’s a superb advert; remarkbly, Trump can nonetheless rent expert folks.)
* * * * * * “Why Nikki Haley Scares the Biden Marketing campaign” [Walter Shapiro, The New Republic]. “However Haley—for all her flaws and ideological contortions—serves as a potent reminder that Biden and the Democrats may very well be susceptible to a Republican nominee who is just not a conspiracy-minded authoritarian with social views lifted from The Handmaid’s Story. Whereas Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy eagerly take right-wing positions which are straightforward to pillory, Haley is far more durable to pigeonhole. There are 4 notable points the place she has taken politically shrewd positions that might flummox Democrats.” Abortion (“making an attempt to take abortion off the desk for the 2024 election”), local weather (blame China and India), nationwide debt (blame each events), and Ukraine (not “wobbly”). Extra: “If the Republicans have been a rational political celebration, they’d rapidly grasp that Haley’s coverage positions, in addition to her persona as an Indian American girl, make her in all probability the strongest candidate towards Biden.” • I’d like to see a Haley/Harris debate. Harris may recast herself because the Indian… she as soon as forged herself as!
* * * “Cornel West defends third-party presidential bid” [NBC News]. “Requested why he’s operating for the Inexperienced Get together nomination as an alternative of difficult Biden within the Democratic Get together major, West mentioned that ‘neither celebration is chatting with the urgent wants of poor and dealing folks.’ So the two-party system itself is changing into in an obstacle for the flowering of American democracy,’ he mentioned. ‘We’ve obtained too many fellow residents, 63%, residing paycheck-to-paycheck. … I have to say that it’s exhausting to view oneself as a spoiler when there’s growing rot within the system with two events related to large cash, Wall Avenue, Silicon Valley and militarism overseas.’” Right here’s the video:
The announcer could be very pleasant to West (who, one should admit, is sort of a charmer).
“Third-party ‘spoiler’ candidate Cornel West says Democratic Get together is ‘past redemption’” [FOX]. “”I feel deep down in his coronary heart he is aware of that the Democratic Get together has no elementary intention of chatting with the wants of poor folks and dealing folks,” he continued. “They’re dominated by their company wing, they’re dominated by the militarists with regards to international coverage. He and [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and the others are going to be, in a sure sense, window dressing.” • This announceris additionally pleasant, however posts the next:
Fairly a faucet dance on his taxes, oppo although it’s.
“Brother Bernie”:
I’m glad to answer Brother Bernie’s critique of my marketing campaign on The Rising. @RisingTheHill https://t.co/IEcl4wOHBx
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) August 31, 2023
Spook Nation
“Background to ‘Assessing Russian Actions and Intentions in Current US Elections””: The Analytic Course of and Cyber Incident Attribution” [Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Office of the Director of National Intelligence National Council*]. From 2017. • Simply terrible. C’mon, ODNI and ODNIC, let’s beat it collectively:
(A Russian influence meme, in case you haven’t guessed.) NOTE * I swear these are two separate establishments! They each have their seals on the quilt of the doc (indicated to me that they’re overstaffed, although little question name-plate contractors are doing very nicely for themselves.)
“Assertion by Secretary Jeh Johnson on the Designation of Election Infrastructure as a Essential Infrastructure Subsector” [United States Department of Homeland Security]. Additionally from 2017. “Now greater than ever, it is crucial that we provide our help to state and native election officers within the cybersecurity of their programs. Election infrastructure is significant to our nationwide pursuits, and cyber assaults on this nation have gotten extra refined, and unhealthy cyber actors – starting from nation states, cyber criminals and hacktivists – have gotten extra refined and harmful.” • After all, with handmarked paper ballots, hand-counted in public, there’s no cybersecurity challenge in any respect, since there’s no “cyber” to start with. Can’t have that.
Commentary by Mike Benz on the above two paperwork:
The “”Different”” January 6
How the CIA and DHS threw a 1-2 punch on January 6, 2017 to kick within the door for spooks to start out censoring US elections pic.twitter.com/QrvYsMz22X
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 23, 2023
One may view the organs of state safety as having constructed a number of strains of protection towards the “improper” choice on the poll in 2024: (1) counting the votes (and sustaining the voter rolls), per Jeh Johnson; (2) constraining the poll strains, per ODNI and ODNIC (see, e.g., Hunter Thompson’s laptop computer). As well as, (3) a brand new line of protection is being constructed to constrain the poll line with election officers, underneath the Fourteenth Modification concept.
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, plainly persons are truly studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are numerous updates. So I must do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated post, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Get together reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Get together (ka-ching, however not completely) these components comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Be aware, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
* * *
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Government of Canada).
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Maskstravaganza
“Masks Mandates Have Stored One Most cancers Middle Free From COVID-19. Others Have Lifted Masking Necessities Regardless of Affected person Considerations” [Cancer Therapy Advisor]. “Metropolis of Hope in Duarte, California, has maintained masking necessities, and this has prevented hospital-acquired COVID-19 there completely, in line with Vijay Trisal, MD, chief medical officer at Metropolis of Hope. ‘Our insurance policies enabled us to attain zero nosocomial infections, zero outbreaks,’ Dr Trisal mentioned. ‘In a most cancers hospital, that’s critically necessary. We now have no imminent plans to vary our present insurance policies.’” • Regardless of CDC’s best efforts to kill his sufferers!
Covid is Airborne
Readers, I’m repeating this due to my plea for a PDF. Thanks!
“Public Well being is a Job for Engineers” (abtract) [Mechanical Engineering]. The deck: “Physicians Can Treatment Illnesses, however Mechanical Engineers Construct Defenses To Ward Off Pathogens Defore They Infect.” The Summary: “As an alternative of ready to combat illnesses contained in the human physique, engineering can set up strains of protection additional out by both intercepting and neutralizing the pathogens earlier than they attain people or diluting them a lot that they will’t construct up an infective load. However there is no such thing as a quantity of me doing my particular person greatest that may overcome a failure of group coverage.’ The convention’s present Covid-19 insurance policies mirror these of its affiliate, Middlebury Faculty, which begins orientation for brand new college students subsequent week. Each entities say they comply with steerage from the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and depend on people to handle their very own testing and to voluntarily masks and isolate themselves when signs seem.” • Covid is, after all, asymptomatic, so CDC’s eugenicist insurance policies are working as designed, no less than for Middlebury, In the meantime, IIRC Bob Wachter chivvied his spouse into attending a author’s convention, and he tagged alongside. They each obtained Covid, and he or she obtained Lengthy Covid. So there’s completely no excuse for the organizers. However PMC gotta PMC. From alert reader Amateur Socialist:
Covid anecdata from rural VT: Outbreak at author’s convention stirs controversy when organizers proceed occasions on schedule. https://thevpo.org/2023/08/28/youd-think-maybe-a-writers-conference-would-put-writers-first/#more-15684
If it’s in Middlebury VT it’s in all places.
Occasions are “on schedule” alright. Proper down the cr*pper.
Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater data, August 31:
Lambert right here: Pleased reminiscences of tape-watching days! Resuming our upward climb, at a slower tempo.
Regional information. As we will see, the nationwide flattening was because of the Midwest downward swoop:
Yesterday’s Water Cooler was stuffed with charts that confirmed why I used to be doubtful concerning the Midwest downward swoop, which now appears to be reversing itself, I don’t know whether or not because of the information, backward revisions, or what.
Variants
From CDC, September 2:
Lambert right here: Prime of the leaderboard: EG.5 (“Eris“). No BA.2.86 right here, not even within the observe, however see beneath at Positivity.
From CDC, August 19:
Lambert right here: Unsure what to make of this. I’m used to seeing a brand new variant take down the beforehand dominant variant. Right here it appears to be like like we’ve a “tag crew,” all working collectively to chop XBB.1.5 all the way down to dimension. I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart depends, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to services minimize by directors of ailing intent).
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information might be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of constructive take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems to be like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, August 26:
Lambert right here: I modified this ER chart to a Covid-only chart damaged down by age. Be aware the highlighting.
NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not all the pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, no less than for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, though CDC is making an attempt to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
NOT UPDATED Bellwether New York City, information as of August 31:
Nonetheless getting worse. However how a lot worse? I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading.
NOT UPDATED Right here is CDC’s map…. “In Previous Week,” as a result of there’s no [family blogging date]:
Orange = “substantial enhance” (greater than 20%). The cadence: “Maps, charts, and information offered by CDC, updates Mondays and Thursdays by 8 p.m. ET.” So apparently, on Friday, I’ve to check the map right here with the one on the CDC web site to see if the replace has, the truth is, been carried out. Why are they making me assume?
Lambert right here: This appears to be like the identical to me, so both issues are the identical, or CDC’s promised Thursday replace “by 8 p.m. ET” didn’t occur (and it won’t have; CDC has type). Can’t they only time-stamp the [family blogging] web page, like regular human beings?
Positivity
NOT UPDATED Walgreens, August 28:
So, Walgreens is again within the recreation (and how on earth did that debacle occur? We breathlessly await the information protection). The proportion of positives is the best ever, although absolute numbers are nonetheless small relative to previous surges.
NOT UPDATED Cleveland Clinic, August 26:
Lambert right here: I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is sweet*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is making an attempt to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.
From CDC, August 14:
Lambert right here: That is the CDC’s “Traveler-Primarily based Genomic Surveillance” information, confirming the present surge, solely two weeks late. Positive can be helpful to know if there have been any BA.2.86 in these samples, although! And now we all know:
I apologize, CDC. I missed this. Fifty lashes with a moist noodle for lambert.
Deaths
Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, August 30:
Lambert right here: The WHO information is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Information Tracker. Their technique: “These information have been sourced, through the API from the CDC: https://information.cdc.gov/NCHS/Circumstances-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Information are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that reveals a complete of the three causes (prime proper). Readers?
Total: 1,173,655 – 1,173,5931,173,081 = 62. 62 * 365 = 22,630 deaths per yr, as we speak’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would really like, although they will discuss themselves into something.–> If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I may need to determine that is what the powers-that-be contemplate “mission achieved” for this explicit tranche of dying and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, September 1:
Lambert right here: Again to nearly day by day. Odd when it’s, odd when it stops. Based on a machine-learning model. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran endlessly with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no one was actually it, so I obtained rid it. )
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States Unemployment Price” [Trading Ecomomics]. “The unemployment fee within the US rose to three.8 % in August 2023 from 3.5 % in July, the best since February 2022 and above market expectations of three.5 %. The variety of unemployed folks elevated by 514 thousand to six.355 million and employment ranges rose by 222 thousand to 161.484 million. The so-called U-6 unemployment fee, which additionally consists of individuals who need to work, however have given up looking out and people working part-time as a result of they can not discover full-time employment, went as much as 7.1 % in August, the best since Might 2022, from 6.7 % in July. The labor pressure participation fee elevated to 62.8 %, the best since February 2020, from 62.6 %.”
Manufacturing: “United States ISM Buying Managers Index (PMI)” [Trading Economics]. “The ISM Manufacturing PMI climbed to 47.6 in August 2023 from the earlier month’s 46.4, barely exceeding the market consensus of 47.0. Nonetheless, this studying nonetheless indicated that financial exercise throughout the manufacturing sector had contracted for the tenth consecutive month. Whereas manufacturing ranges stabilized, the influx of latest orders skilled a extra fast decline, and the tempo of job shedding confirmed indicators of easing.”:
As we speak’s Concern & Greed Index: 55 Impartial (earlier shut: 53 Concern) [CNN]. One week in the past: 47 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 1 at 2:13 PM ET. C’mon, Mr. Market! By hook or by crook!
Information of the Wired
“Pornhub Wins Free Speech Problem to New Verification and Warning Legal guidelines” [Jonathan Turley, The Hill]. “There may be an attention-grabbing free speech ruling in Texas in favor of the grownup leisure web site, Pornhub. Senior U.S. District Decide David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Texas dominated {that a} Texas regulation requiring age-verification and warning labels concerning the alleged risks of porn contravenes the First Modification…. I do view this regulation as containing unconstitutional components. Nonetheless, that is more likely to be simply the begin to an extended collection of challenges and appeals. These legal guidelines have been enacted in different states, together with Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia and Utah.” • Texas, naturally, since Purple States watch extra pr0n; the thrill of the forbidden, little question.
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